Hey kids, want to fight back against The Man? Authoritarians want everything their way and micromanage based on perceived ideas and not reality, so play dumb and watch them lose their minds! Be bad at something and make them do it. Watch as they struggle to push any agenda in the face of overwhelming incompetence.
Is it deliberate or does the person simply not know? Does training then see some benefits that slowly get forgotten over time? Who knows‽ Remember, resistance doesn’t have to be violent. Friction is resistance and adding small amounts of extra work for fascists counts! Start resisting and wasting their time today!
This strategy was recommended by the OSS as a way for people to resist fascism during WWII:
Pretend that instructions are hard to understand, and ask to have them repeated more than once. Or pretend that you are particularly anxious to do your work, and pester the foreman with unnecessary questions.
Hey kids, want to fight back against The Man? Authoritarians want everything their way and micromanage based on perceived ideas and not reality, so play dumb and watch them lose their minds! Be bad at something and make them do it. Watch as they struggle to push any agenda in the face of overwhelming incompetence.
Is it deliberate or does the person simply not know? Does training then see some benefits that slowly get forgotten over time? Who knows‽ Remember, resistance doesn’t have to be violent. Friction is resistance and adding small amounts of extra work for fascists counts! Start resisting and wasting their time today!
This strategy was recommended by the OSS as a way for people to resist fascism during WWII:
They eventually became the CIA and declassified the document which has other fun tips: https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf